The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 12

_Pride over a success should not throw us off our guard.

Who acts: Pride · What happens: not throw off · To what, where: guard, us

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pride), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Pride	punct
2	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	nsubj
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 success	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 success	det
5	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Pride	nmod
6	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 throw	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 throw	advmod
8	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 throw	obj
10	off	off	ADP	_	8 throw	compound:prt
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 guard	nmod:poss
12	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 throw	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 throw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not throw off	should	Pride over a success	our guard	us				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination guard=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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